jdb@qubix.UUCP (Jeff Bulf) (05/31/84)
> From: wendt@arizona.UUCP (Alan Wendt) > > I remember (vaguely) a movie that must have come out around 1960, > as I saw when I was 6 or 7. > It was an adventure based in South America, scenery very remeniscent > of, say, Romancing the Stone. The hero was in the Navy and not only > had to save the world but he had to catch the train to get back to > base when his weekend furlough was over. Saving the world in this > case involved not letting the bad guys get all four little Incan > statuettes. Can anyone name that movie? This has to have been That Man From Rio. French-made with Jean-Paul Belmondo in the title role. As I remember saving the world was incidental to recovering Belmondo's girlfriend Agnes, who had been kidnapped by the baddies along with the indian statuettes. Twas a real fun adventure flick, with most of the strengths of IJ#2 and fewer of the flaws. (eg I only had to suspend disbelief, not draw and quarter it!). If you see it dubbed rather than subtitled, Belmondo sounds a little dumb whenever he screams his girlfriend's name. ("Agnes" is pronounced nicer in French than in English. Bad luck.) -- Dr Memory ...{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!qubix!jdb